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Lessons to learn from India’s economic and social outlook

While Canadians were preoccupied with a housing expense scandal in the senate, India is going into next month’s federal elections with fully 30% of its MPs facing criminal charges
Founder pulls plug on Kinjoe while Roam Mobility thrives

Founder pulls plug on Kinjoe while Roam Mobility thrives

I recently got a pitch from a San Diego company that has developed a new social media app called Tower, which connects people living in residential towers, dorms, barracks, etc.

Marketing to increase sales: Tap the power of one to plug into the power of many

I found myself reflecting on pivotal events of 2013 recently, and in honour of Nelson Mandela's passing, I watched again a 1992 movie called The Power of One, set in South Africa during the Second World War and featuring a young English boy raised under apartheid. It was a powerful movie about racial injustice and had an amazing soundtrack. I downloaded it to my iPod for inspiration in 2014.

Canadian Games success amid Russian Olympic excess

A combined web-streaming audience of 1.4 million on both sides of the border watched Canada edge the U.S. in the men’s hockey semifinal, further validating the case for advertiser-supported webcasts

Dying scallops add to climate change's mounting economic costs

Until our carbon-intensive resource industries are rapidly repositioned from a holy grail to a regrettable interim step into a low-carbon future, what we celebrate as economic growth in B.C. is actually economic suicide
Life Lessons: Doug Nelson

Life Lessons: Doug Nelson

President and CEO, BC Cancer Foundation. Communicate major company changes directly with staff

Erich Vogt’s KAON vision scuttled by Canadian political myopia

KAON would have been Canada’s largest single science laboratory, promising to make Vancouver an international scientific magnet comparable to Geneva, home of world-leading supercollider

Weighing business and investor pros and cons of a falling Canadian dollar

RBC found that over periods of 15 years or longer, the impact of exchanges between the Canadian dollar and the U.S. dollar on investment returns gets closer and closer to zero
How I did it: John Newell

How I did it: John Newell

Newell brothers used unique branding to set Windset Farms apart from other growers
Changes afoot for community amenity contributions; downtown density key for Bonds Group development

Changes afoot for community amenity contributions; downtown density key for Bonds Group development

Competing visions